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We made various updates throughout the site including correcting broken links and adding alt tags to the images on the site to make the site easier to navigate for the visually impaired.

LDSGenealogy.com has been working for 13 years to develop an extensive U.S. genealogy directory to help people to easily locate the available genealogy records for a specific town, county, or state. While we are linking to 944,000 records from 587 sources so far, we know that we could be linking to many more valuable online records, particularly smaller websites with local genealogy records.
We are inviting members of the genealogy community to review the list of sites and archives we are currently including in our U.S. genealogy records directory and contact us with suggestions on what else could be added.
LDSGenealogy.com is dedicated to helping families find their ancestors through our extensive records directory and helpful genealogy articles. The site is open to anyone interested in finding their ancestors, is privately owned, and is not an official site of FamilySearch International or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

We have added 3 more brick wall ancestor series articles:

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #27: Locating the family of a man who joined The Church of Jesus Christ (Mormons) in Denmark in the 1800s Soren’s wife and children in Denmark were known, but the records about them didn’t list anything that would lead to his parents, and he had a common name. Could his parents be located?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #28: Locating the family of an African American man of unknown origins who lived in St Louis A man named O.C. Richardson lived in St Louis in the 1920s and 1930s, and no documents had been located about him. Could his family be located by using DNA testing and documents?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #29: Identifying the family of a man who lived in Indiana who doesn’t appear listed by name in any U.S. census records Hugh married his wife, had one son, and died a short time later. Could his family be identified?

We have added 9 more brick wall ancestor series articles:

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #10: Finding the family of an Irish family with common names living in New York City Edmond and Mary were immigrants to the United States from Ireland, their ages listed differently in the records, and no document had been located that named their parents or their specific place of origin in Ireland. Could their families be found?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #11: Locating a San Francisco man’s parents when a fire destroyed many of the genealogical records Matthew lived in San Francisco for many years and the vital records burned in a fire in 1906. Could his parents be identified?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #12: Finding the parents of a New Jersey man with no vital or census records that listed his parents William didn’t have a birth or death record, and his marriage record didn’t list his parents. He wasn’t with his parents in the census records. Could his parents be identified?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #13: Finding the family of a Pennsylvania woman with no birth record Mary Ann was born in Pennsylvania and her father’s name was known but it was uncertain which family she belonged to. Could her family be located?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #14: Locating a vital records certificate using the index information There was an index for a birth certificate found online. Could the original document be located?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #15: Finding a family’s address in St Louis A Laux family descendant wanted to know where the Laux family lived in St Louis in order go and visit the old family home. Could their address be found?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #16: Finding a woman’s family who had moved from Ohio to Australia Annie’s marriage record and death record listed her parents as unknown. Could her family be located?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #17: Identifying a Pennsylvania woman’s family without a document that names her parents No document had been located that named Sarah’s parents. Could her family be identified?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #18: Finding the family of a man from South Carolina living in Georgia No documents listed the names of the parents of Jones F Miller. Could his family be identified?

We have added our first 9 brick wall ancestor series articles:

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #1: Solving a Connecticut man’s unknown parents using genealogical records and DNA Descendants had been trying to find out who Ruluf’s parents were for more than 100 years unsuccessfully. Could his parents be found?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #2: Discovering the family of a woman living in Ohio from an unknown place in New Jersey Online trees listed who Catherine’s family was, but there were no sources to prove it and no document located that named her parents. Could her family be proven from actual documents?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #3: Finding the birth place and parents of an Italian immigrant to the United States Leonard spelled his name several different ways and put his age and immigration differently on each census. Could he be found in his home country of Italy?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #4: Finding the birth place and parents of a Danish immigrant to the United States John’s passenger list to America hadn’t been located and he had a common name. Could he be found in his home country of Denmark?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #5: Locating the family of an Irish woman in Connecticut Catherine was from somewhere in Ireland and lived in Connecticut. Could her family be found?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #6: Finding the family of a Massachusetts Revolutionary War soldier It was a family tradition that Benjamin Clark served in the Revolutionary War. Did he really serve and could his parents be proven?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #7: Verifying the family of a Pennsylvania man with a common name There were online trees that showed Jacob’s family, but few original source documents to prove it and many men of the same name in the area. In addition, Jacob lived before there were vital records kept in Pennsylvania or census records that listed all family members by name. Could his family clearly be identified?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #8: Finding the birth place and family of a Swedish immigrant living in Massachusetts Frank lived in Massachusetts and records showed he was originally from Sweden, but the town of his birth hadn’t been found. Could his birth place and parents be found?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #9: Finding the burial location of an immigrant from Ireland who died in New York Thomas was a man from Ireland who died in New York. Could his burial location be found?

As a service to the genealogy community, our new brick wall ancestor series features articles about a difficult genealogical question that we were able to solve with the details of how we did it.

We have added many new records this month from FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Chronicling America, Reclaim the Records, and other sources. We also corrected many links that needed updating. We hope this will be helpful to you in your research.

We have now added a Facebook page. You can like our page and get updates to our site, as well as helpful research tips and learn about special deals from various websites. Hope you join us!

We have now created a new video based on one our best learning articles called “How to Find an Elusive Ancestor” which gives ideas on how to find out about an ancestor in your genealogy that’s difficult to locate. You can view the video here:

You can also read the original article here: http://ldsgenealogy.com/Finding-an-Elusive-Ancestor.htm

Happy hunting!

LDSGenealogy.com is pleased to announce a complete site relaunch, including the addition of an extensive U.S. genealogy records directory with more than 579,000 record sources from 930 websites and archives. The directory includes detailed information from online sources such as FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, American Ancestors, FindMyPast, Newspapers.com, Fold3, Find a Grave, US Gen Web, Genealogy Bank, Newspaper Archive, Archives.com, Chronicling America, Elephind, Distant Cousin, Billion Graves, and hundreds of smaller and local sites. Records from offline sources are also included such as the Family History Library, the U.S. Newspaper Directory from the Library of Congress, the New York State Library, the Boston Public Library, and several others.

The records directory has been under development for several years and is now newly available all on one site. One of the challenges to doing genealogy research, particularly for the United States, is that the relevant records are scattered across many websites and archives, and it can be time consuming to locate them. The directory has detailed information down to the county and town/city level for the entire United States for both online and archival sources. So you can come to one place, find the location, and easily and quickly find the relevant records for your research. New record sources for the United States will continue to be added, and listings for other countries are under development. Submissions to the directory are welcome. Helpful articles for learning genealogy are also available on the  site.

LDSGenealogy.com has been providing free helpful information for everyone interested in finding their ancestors since 2008.